Jim Carrey says the old him is gone, meet his replacement - General

[video=youtube;ICPGhxjW3fw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICPGhxjW3fw[/video] So sad to see someone I grew up with as a kid to be once so happy to now to be so depressed.. :frown:

Damn. Can't say I haven't felt like that in my life, but that was me becoming an adult from a kid. This kinda seems worse.

I really hope this is an existential crisis and not Jim giving up entirely. I think it's true that comedians tend to be so great because they have an internal / hidden depression throughout their lives.

This time next year we'll be mourning for Jim.

Jim Carrazy [editline]24th September 2017[/editline] Its wild to see a man just kind of lose himself the worst kind of disease, depression, where its you who destroys yourself, not an illness

[QUOTE=Boss;52713533]This time next year we'll be mourning for Jim.[/QUOTE] I'd like to think that he'll seek out help before that happens, but given how religious he is, and how frowned upon psychiatry/depression tends to be in religious circles, it's definitely possible that we will be.

Supposedly he did DMT and a bunch of other hallucinogens and he's pretty much acting like he's suffering from psychosis and nobody will say it. My stupid stoner friends keep cheering him on for being like this and I seem to be the only one of my friend group who sees that this dude is fucked up in a bad way right now

Many comedians suffer from depression. Comedy is often their way of coping with their feelings. [url]http://abcnews.go.com/Health/deal-comedians-depression/story?id=24945911[/url] [url]http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/01/health/sad-clown-standup-comedy-mental-health/index.html[/url]

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNE69WyL0U0[/media]

I personally don't think we'll be mourning him next year at all, how morbid to even suggest that. I think Jim is talking like a realist and I applaud him for not being so scared to have negative emotions because they don't dominate him, he's empowered and enlightened and is now far from the shallow pointlessness of stardom, with every interview I see of him you can really tell the interviewer is grasping at straws trying to ask Jim about some faceless subject with little meaning and I say fair play to Jim for not pretending to give a shit for sake of face, he's on his own path to recovery and everyone is acting like this is the end of Jim Carrey but really it's the end of our nostalgia, people grow up, even the celebrities that we used to love watching as kids/adults. I'd be more worried if Jim was shackled to the industry forcing out terrible flicks such like Adam Sandler did.

People are starting to speculate that he is Method Acting for his role in this thing: [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7375404/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1[/url]

[QUOTE=Lazore;52713592]People are starting to speculate that he is Method Acting for his role in this thing: [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7375404/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1[/url][/QUOTE] I definitely hope so, and he is talented enough to pull it off, but eyes don't tend to lie. Regardless of how great an actor you are, I just don't see someone being able to pull off that spaced out, miserable look.

I dunno that he's depressed, it just sounds like he's taken the ego-dissolution belief a bit too far. He doesn't really believe in a self, it sounds like. Which has some scientific basis, but not really to the extent he's taking it. [url]https://academic.oup.com/nc/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/nc/nix016[/url]

[QUOTE=Lazore;52713592]People are starting to speculate that he is Method Acting for his role in this thing: [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7375404/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1[/url][/QUOTE] Well this didn't reflect in any reviews he gave in that time, he did some extreme method acting for Man On The Moon as well when played Andy Kaufman

This slice is concerning.. The whole pie is a little less so. [video=youtube;NEjWCACG52g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEjWCACG52g[/video] Love ya Mr. Carrey. e: He's just trying to shed his reptilian skin. I believe there's something great brewing here- something that won't and [I]can't[/I] be gifted to us by "him" if you catch my drift.

I dunno if he's really so depressed here, if you go back to an interview earlier this year on Jimmy Kimmel he says "Don't get me wrong, Jim Carrey is a great character and I was lucky to get the part. But I don't think of that as me anymore." [b](1:56)[/b] [media]https://youtu.be/LQMvZ5nvjc8?t=1m56s[/media] Seems to me he's been holding up a facade of being the funny guy who's always joking around and not taking anything seriously his entire life - and he's in a space personally where he no longer feels like he needs to be that person. With his delve into religion/spirituality he seems to have rediscovered himself, and when he says "Jim Carrey is gone" in the OP's video I imagine this is what he's referring to, a shedding of that 'character' in the public eye and showing the world who he's become. At least that's what I take away from it, not just that he's morbidly depressed and disconnected from reality.

[QUOTE=Alec W;52713529]I really hope this is an existential crisis and not Jim giving up entirely. I think it's true that comedians tend to be so great because they have an internal / hidden depression throughout their lives.[/QUOTE] If you can't feel happy the least you can do is try to make others happy.

[QUOTE=lew06;52713690]I dunno if he's really so depressed here, if you go back to an interview earlier this year on Jimmy Kimmel he says "Don't get me wrong, Jim Carrey is a great character and I was lucky to get the part. But I don't think of that as me anymore." [B](1:56)[/B] Seems to me he's been holding up a facade of being the funny guy who's always joking around and not taking anything seriously his entire life - and he's in a space personally where he no longer feels like he needs to be that person. With his delve into religion/spirituality he seems to have rediscovered himself, and when he says "Jim Carrey is gone" in the OP's video I imagine this is what he's referring to, a shedding of that 'character' in the public eye and showing the world who he's become. At least that's what I take away from it, not just that he's morbidly depressed and disconnected from reality.[/QUOTE] It was always obviously an act. He was so over-the-top funny in most of his projects that it just wasn't sustainable for his private persona. I only really think we see the private Jim Carrey's professional ambition in his more straight-man roles. That said, i really think he's going through something heavy in recent years. I think he's Shia Labeoufing in that he's attempting to separate his public persona from his private persona... to the public. he wants everyone else to see it and get it. It's like how Robin Williams would take interviews and absolutely rip them off the rails with his innate ability towards warm, good-feely humor. It was pretty obvious from his choice in film and his struggles with alchohol and drugs that he was just a depressed man with a ton of empathy for others, struggling to stay positive and extend warmth to other people as well. It's hard to get across, but in my experience, people who have dealt with depression and who managed to somewhat cope with it are often more empathetic towards others and tend to more naturally sense peoples state of mind... "feel the room" as a comedian would say. In the end, i just think he wants people to see the man, not the clown and i think Robin Williams wanted that as well. Difference is, with Robin Williams, people already to a large degree DID see the man behind the clown mask and thought highly of him. Contrast that with the hate Jim gets these days for anti-vaxxing and other stuff and you've got a man falling apart in the seams. Edit: i wrote some more, but then some captcha fucked it all over. WTF Facepunch?

[QUOTE=J!NX;52713538]Jim Carrazy [editline]24th September 2017[/editline] Its wild to see a man just kind of lose himself the worst kind of disease, depression, where its you who destroys yourself, not an illness[/QUOTE] Seems more like he is finding himself and that the former "class clown" Jim Carrey was a role he assumed very deeply in himself and that he now is letting go of.

[QUOTE=medal12;52713565]I personally don't think we'll be mourning him next year at all, how morbid to even suggest that. I think Jim is talking like a realist and I applaud him for not being so scared to have negative emotions because they don't dominate him, he's empowered and enlightened and is now far from the shallow pointlessness of stardom, with every interview I see of him you can really tell the interviewer is grasping at straws trying to ask Jim about some faceless subject with little meaning and I say fair play to Jim for not pretending to give a shit for sake of face, he's on his own path to recovery and everyone is acting like this is the end of Jim Carrey but really it's the end of our nostalgia, people grow up, even the celebrities that we used to love watching as kids/adults. I'd be more worried if Jim was shackled to the industry forcing out terrible flicks such like Adam Sandler did.[/QUOTE] fucking this. Is it really that hard to tell?

I still remember being a little shocked at how great he was in eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

this doesn't come off as depression. this comes off as a dude who is realizing he has a lot of freedom in terms of deciding what type of person he is/wants to be.

wich comes off as well as that one person who doesnt need to be what everyone else thinks he is. he most likely got carried away with that persona to a point it took over himself until he realised that jim carrey was as shallow as forgettable as any other "funny guy" out there.

This is great. From the sounds of it he's been hiding his depression, his concerns, his worries, etc, under a veil of 'I'm funny and crazy Jim Carrey!', and that's stopped him from being able to actually deal with his illness. He's had to pretend to be something and somebody else, because coming out and saying 'I'm depressed and I need some support right now' is something he was scared of doing - because we're taught it's a shameful thing and all the rest of it. I'm glad he's tearing down that false image, saying 'fuck it, here's who I really am' and moving forwards with it. I can't image how painful it must have been to spend decades putting on a false facade while suffering beneath.

[QUOTE=lew06;52713690]Seems to me he's been holding up a facade of being the funny guy who's always joking around and not taking anything seriously his entire life - and he's in a space personally where he no longer feels like he needs to be that person. With his delve into religion/spirituality he seems to have rediscovered himself, and when he says "Jim Carrey is gone" in the OP's video I imagine this is what he's referring to, a shedding of that 'character' in the public eye and showing the world who he's become. At least that's what I take away from it, not just that he's morbidly depressed and disconnected from reality.[/QUOTE] If I recall correctly, he used to always want to star in more series movies, but was repeatedly typecast as the funny guy. Based on that this sounds about right.

[QUOTE=Maloof?;52714698]This is great. From the sounds of it he's been hiding his depression, his concerns, his worries, etc, under a veil of 'I'm funny and crazy Jim Carrey!', and that's stopped him from being able to actually deal with his illness. He's had to pretend to be something and somebody else, because coming out and saying 'I'm depressed and I need some support right now' is something he was scared of doing - because we're taught it's a shameful thing and all the rest of it. I'm glad he's tearing down that false image, saying 'fuck it, here's who I really am' and moving forwards with it. I can't image how painful it must have been to spend decades putting on a false facade while suffering beneath.[/QUOTE] He never mentioned being depressed starting out.. And he definitely had to deal with grief & strife in the past decade, but now? It appears his message is that there is [I]no room[/I] in his person for depression, because he is choosing to be "[I]no person[/I]" - one less identified with their ego.

jim a buddhist?

From 3 days ago [video=youtube;LMnrH1CN4oc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMnrH1CN4oc[/video]

[QUOTE=arthuro12;52715183]From 3 days ago [video=youtube;LMnrH1CN4oc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMnrH1CN4oc[/video][/QUOTE] Nice, seems like he has a pretty healthy look on things.

God I haven't seen Jim in years. He looks emaciated.